Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)

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Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)
Borough constituency
Created: 1584
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons

Yarmouth was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832.

The constituency was included in the new County constituency of Isle of Wight from 1832.

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The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

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List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies